Pandemic
Did Corona come from a laboratory? White house is stuck
The White House has put an entire website for corona pandemic online and is primarily devoted to the question of where the virus came from. The answer is clear for the White House.
Even more than five years after the outbreak of Corona pandemic, it is still unclear whether the virus has jumped from animals to humans or comes from a laboratory in China – the white house now supports the laboratory theory with a new website. The page, which is similar to a poster for a Hollywood film, shows the title Lab Leak in capital letters – i.e. laboratory leaks. Between the two words there is a determined US President Donald Trump. Under the title is handwritten: “The true origins of Covid-19”
On the side, media, politicians, health authorities and the famous US immunologist Anthony Fauci are accused of spreading the theory of a natural origin of the virus. However, there is a lot of indications that the virus came from a laboratory in the Chinese metropolis of Wuhan. The explanation on the website comes in a time great tensions between the Trump government and Beijing. At the same time, the most important rules from the Corona period such as a distance and mask carrying and the lockdowns are criticized as incorrectly on the website.
New CIA boss and House of Representatives judge similar
As early as January, the new director of the US foreign intelligence agency CIA, John Ratcliffe, had changed the assessment of his authority to the origin of the Coronavirus as one of his first official acts. This is now based on a laboratory breakdown. The CIA appreciate with little trust that a research-related origin of the Covid 19 pandemic is more likely than a natural origin. At the beginning of December, a subcommittee of the US House of Representatives had already submitted a report in which laboratory theory is also supported.
The former President of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Lothar Wieler, also considers the laboratory thesis to be more likely with the current state of knowledge, as he said a month ago of the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung”. Wieler was during the Corona outbreak and until March 2023 RKI president.
No clear result
From a scientific point of view, the question of the origin of the pathogen cannot currently be clarified. A study published in September in the journal “Cell” had shown evidence that the pathogens came from wild animals that were traded on the market in Wuhan. However, the analyzed had not allowed clear conclusions to be drawn more than 800 rehearsals.
dpa
Source: Stern
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